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Moscow and Pretoria: a New Course?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

L. H. Gann
L. H. Gann
Affiliation:
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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The Soviet Union and South Africa – on the face of it, no two powers on earth look on each other with greater hostility. For many years, no diplomatic relations have existed between them. South African propagandists never tire of denouncing the Godless Soviet tyranny, and the ‘total onslaught’ waged against their country by communists at home and abroad. As the official Soviet interpretation would have it, South Africa is governed by a racist clique, and menaces all its neighbours.

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Africana
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 341 - 346
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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